Musnad Ahmad 2243

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had cupping done on his head while he was in iḥrām.

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• يحيى القطان

  ضعفه

  machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2261
• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  سألت أحمد بن حنبل عن حديث ابن عباس أن النبي عليه السلام احتجم وهو صائم محرم فقال ليس فيه صائم إنما هو محرم

  machine translationI asked Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal about the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās that the Prophet, peace be upon him, had himself cupped while fasting and in a state of iḥrām. He said: "The word 'fasting' is not in it; it is only that he was in iḥrām." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2261
• الزيلعى

  مجمع على صحته

  machine translationThere is consensus on its authenticity (ṣiḥḥah). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2261

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3485

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Hishām b. Ḥassān al-ʿAtakī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AH
   هِشَامٌثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهما
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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